Henry Kolker
Born: 1874-11-12 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 1947-07-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career behind him before entering silent films. On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor. Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining. Prints however exist in Europe and Russia.
Filmography
1944
- Bluebeard as Deschamps
1943
- Sarong Girl as Jefferson Baxter
1942
- Reunion in France as General Bartholomew (uncredited)
1941
- A Woman's Face as Judge
- The Parson of Panamint as Judge Arnold Mason
- The Great Swindle as Stewart Cordell
- The Man Who Lost Himself as T.J. Mulhausen
- Las Vegas Nights as William Stevens Sr.
- Sing for Your Supper as Myron T. Hayworth
1940
- Money and the Woman as Mr. Rollins
- Grand Ole Opry as William C. Scully
1939
- Union Pacific as Asa M. Barrows
- The Real Glory as The General
- Let Us Live as Chief of Police
- These Glamour Girls as Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
- Here I Am a Stranger as R.J. Bennett
- Hidden Power as Weston
- Main Street Lawyer as Donnelly, District Attorney
- Parents on Trial as James Wesley
1938
- Marie Antoinette as Court Aide (uncredited)
- Holiday as Edward Seton
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Horace Smith
- The Adventures of Marco Polo as Nicolo Polo
- Too Hot to Handle as Pearly Todd
- The Invisible Menace as Col. Hackett
- Safety in Numbers as Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
- Love Is a Headache as Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
1937
- Maid of Salem as Crown Chief Justice Laughton
- Green Light as Dr. Lane
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry as "Doc" Godfrey
- Let Them Live as Judge Lederer
- The Devil Is Driving as Charles Stevens
- Under Cover of Night as District Attorney Pritchard
- Once a Doctor as Bruce Nordland
- They Wanted to Marry as Mr. Hunter
1936
- My Marriage as Maj. Vaile
- Bullets or Ballots as Mr. Hollister
- Romeo and Juliet as Friar Laurence
- Theodora Goes Wild as Jonathan Grant
- Great Guy as Abel Canning
- Sitting on the Moon as Worthington
- The Man Who Lived Twice as Judge Treacher
1935
- Society Doctor as Dr. Harvey
- Collegiate as Mr. MacGregor
- The Black Room as Baron de Berghman
- Charlie Chan in Paris as Paul Lamartine
- Mad Love as Prefect Rosset
- Diamond Jim as J.C. Randolf - Bank President
- Red Hot Tires as Martin Sanford
- One New York Night as Arthur Carlisle
- I Live My Life as Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Warder (uncredited)
- Here Comes the Band as Simmon's Attorney
- The Case of the Curious Bride as District Attorney Stacey
- The Florentine Dagger as Auctioneer
- Reckless as Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
- Go Into Your Dance as Doctor
- Shipmates Forever as Doctor (uncredited)
- Times Square Lady as Mr. Fielding
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Crippet
- Frisco Waterfront as District Attorney
- A Dog of Flanders as Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
- Spring Tonic as Mr. Enix
- Red Salute as Dean
- Honeymoon Limited as Mr. Randall
- The Mystery Man as Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
1934
- Wonder Bar as R. H. Renaud
- A Lost Lady as John Ormsby
- Imitation of Life as Dr. Preston (uncredited)
- Sisters Under the Skin as Jones
- Now and Forever as Mr. Clark
- The Hell Cat as C.W. Sloane
- Whom the Gods Destroy as Carlo - the Puppeteer
- Name the Woman as Judge Adams
- Blind Date as J.W. Hartwell Sr.
- Sing Sing Nights as Kurt Nordon
- Journal of a Crime as Henri Marcher
- Million Dollar Ransom as Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
- Let's Try Again as Mr. Blake
- Bedside as Maritza's Manager
- She Loves Me Not as Charles M. Lawton
- I've Got Your Number as Lawyer Robert Kirkland
- The Girl from Missouri as Senator Titcombe
- Success at Any Price as Hatfield
- The Band Plays On as Professor Hackett
- One Exciting Adventure as Customer, Oscar
- Love Time as Emperor Francis I
- The Ghost Walks as Dr. Kent
- Lady by Choice as Opper
- Black Moon as The Psychiatrist
- Let's Talk It Over as Doctor
1933
- Baby Face as J.R. Carter
- Hello, Sister! as Jameson Brewster - Bank President
- The Keyhole as Schuyler Brooks
- I Loved a Woman as Mr. Sanborn
- Meet the Baron as Baron Munchausen
- Notorious But Nice as Defense Attorney Clark
- Golden Harvest as Henry Flint
- Bureau of Missing Persons as Theodore Arno
- Blood Money as Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
- Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! as The Judge
- The Narrow Corner as Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
- The Power and the Glory as Mr. Borden
- A Bedtime Story as Agent de Police
- Gigolettes of Paris as Police Interrogator
1932
- Jewel Robbery as Baron Franz Hohenfels
- Rasputin and the Empress as Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
- Devil and the Deep as Hutton
- The Washington Masquerade as Stapleton
- Faithless as Mr. Carter
- The Crash as John Fair
- The First Year as Peter Barstow
1931
- The Yellow Ticket as Passport Clerk
- The Unholy Garden as Col. Lautrac
- Quick Millions as District Attorney (uncredited)
- The Spy as Tchijinski
- Indiscreet as Mr. Woodward
- Don't Bet on Women as Butterfield (uncredited)
- I Like Your Nerve as Areal Pacheco
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as New Englander (uncredited)
- Du Barry, Woman of Passion as D'Aiguillon
- The Bad One as Prosecutor
- Good Intentions as Butler
- One Heavenly Night as Prefect of Police
- The Way of All Men as Sharp
- East Is West as Mr. Benson
1929
- Pleasure Crazed as Col. Farquar
- Love, Live & Laugh as Enrico
- Coquette as Jasper Carter
- The Valiant as Judge
1928
- Don't Marry as General Willoughby
- Soft Living as Rodney S. Bowen
- Midnight Rose as Corbin
- The Beautiful Spy as Viceroy Cisneros
1927
- Annie Laurie
- A Kiss in a Taxi as Leon Lambert
1926
- Wet Paint as A Husband
- Hell's Four Hundred as John Gilmore
- The Palace of Pleasure as Don Sebastian, Premier
1925
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Marcus Morton
- Any Woman as Egbert Phillips
1924
- I Will Repay ... (Director)
- The Great Well ... (Director)
1923
- Sant'Ilario ... (Director)
- The Leopardess ... (Director)
- The Snow Bride ... (Director)
- The Purple Highway ... (Director)
1921
- A Man of Stone as (Uncredited)
- The Fighter ... (Director)
- Bucking the Tiger ... (Director)
- Disraeli ... (Director)
1920
- The Third Generation ... (Director)
- The Greatest Love ... (Director)
- The Palace of Darkened Windows ... (Director)
- Heart of Twenty ... (Director)
1919
- The Woman Michael Married ... (Director)
- Blackie's Redemption as Fred the Count
- The Parisian Tigress as Henri Dutray
- The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns as Kaiser Wilhelm II
- The Brat as A Dandy
- A Man's Country ... (Director)
- Her Purchase Price as Duke of Wryden
1918
- The House of Mirth as Lawrence Selden
- Social Hypocrites as Dr. Frank Simpson
- The Shell Game as Lawrence Gray
1916
- Gloria's Romance as Dr. Stephen Royce
1915
- The Warning as Robert Denman
- The Man with the Iron Heart ... (Story)
- How Molly Malone Made Good as Himself